Tag: Solicitors

BPP's Alison Wells explains why solicitor apprenticeships are becoming an increasingly popular option for school-leavers and how the law school supports firms taking up this new pathway

Mental Health Awareness Week prompts renewed calls for change as wellbeing charity LawCare extends online support

£65k in the regions

Claim made in viral Twitter post

ULaw director of business development, Morette Jackson, explains how the law school is helping firms and students grapple with the changing SQE regime

Sophie Pender recognised for social mobility efforts

Leoaai Elghareeb suffered psychosis during supermarket rampage last summer, causing nearly £500,000 of damages

Head of brand and communications at LexisNexis, Matthew Leopold, discusses the new, user-friendly tools the company has created to make the law more accessible

I have years of experience and transferable skills

Legal Cheek Careers catches up with BPP University Law School’s head of outreach and student recruitment, Jonny Hurst, to hear the inside scoop on the timeline of different firms’ SQE transition

Findings follow Stephenson Harwood's announcement last week that it will reduce salaries by 20% if staff choose to work from home full-time

Elizabeth Robertson succeeds Hogan Lovells' Nicholas Cheffings as executive chair of PRIME

Targets extra 220 solicitors by 2024

Ibz Mo to deliver fresh takes on legal education and training at 12 May in-person event

As 'flashy' NQ rates continue to soar, a recent Legal Cheek open thread exposed the 'abysmal' associate salary bands in place at some UK law firms

Nottingham Law School principal lecturer Joy Davies explains her approach to supporting NQs in the context of IP law

Told fellow jurors what she discovered

Skadden’s global co-head of private equity and the founder of Quinn Emanuel’s London office joined a dual-qualified associate from Hill Dickinson to share their incredible career journeys at Legal Cheek’s latest in-person junior lawyer event

New agile option

2024 move date

Laura Yeates, head of graduate talent at Clifford Chance and founder of the Sustainable Recruitment Alliance, on paving the way for early talent teams to recruit in ‘a greener way’